May 4, 2018 Carolina Research Teams Span Disciplines to Fight Obesity, Advance Water Purification Published by UNC Research. UNC’s new Creativity Hubs initiative, a component of the Carolina Blueprint for Next strategic framework, has announced awards to campus research teams … Read more
May 3, 2018 See all of CPC’s posters presented at PAA 2018 here. The 2018 PAA conference was held April 26-28 at the Sheraton in downtown Denver, CO. Researchers from the Carolina Population Center (CPC) at UNC Chapel Hill were … Read more
Apr 12, 2018 We mourn the passing on April 1st of Jason Davis, Assistant Professor of Geography and Faculty Fellow at the Carolina Population Center. Jason was a young and prolific scholar who studied the relationships between migration, development and … Read more
Barry M. Popkin’s team has been awarded funding to study food purchasing patterns, diets, and health and how government policies about these can impact human health. The funding is provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies. Work is underway in Mexico and Chile … Read more
Apr 9, 2018 Barry M. Popkin’s team has been awarded funding to study food purchasing patterns, diets, and health and how government policies about these can impact human health. The funding is provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies. Work is underway in … Read more
Mar 27, 2018 This short video tells how a software system helps low-resource countries compile and analyze health data to improve services. Video by MEASURE Evaluation. DHIS 2 – A Workhorse for Health Information https://vimeo.com/257187268
Mar 26, 2018 The Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America will be held April 26-28 at the Sheraton Denver Downtown. Listed below are the sessions presented by CPC Faculty Fellows, postdoctoral scholars, predoctoral and undergraduate trainees, and staff … Read more
Feb 16, 2018 Cross posted from http://www.higheredworksfoundation.org/2018/02/college-pipeline/ WINSTON-SALEM – Under current trends, out of 100 North Carolina 9th-graders, 72 will graduate from high school in the next four years and say they intend to go to college. But only 53 … Read more
Jan 24, 2018 CHAPEL HILL, NC-One of the largest research awards made to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) just got bigger, making MEASURE Evaluation not only UNC’s largest project in global health, but the largest single … Read more
Jan 16, 2018 Every child born should have the optimum chance of survival. This story is cross-posted from here. Although that goal might seem obvious, the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 (SDGs) have placed new emphasis on newborn survival as … Read more
